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Benny Zientara

Benedict Joseph Zientara

Positions: Second Baseman and Third Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 9", Weight: 165 lb.

Born: February 14, 1918 in Chicago, IL(All Transactions)
Debut: September 11, 1941
Team: Reds 1941-1948

Final Game: September 23, 1948
Died: April 16, 1985 in Lake Elsinore, CA
Buried: Riverside National Cemetery, Riverside, CA
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Standard Fielding

Year Tm Lg Age Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG Awards
1941 CIN NL 23 2B 6 4 4 35 14 18 3 3 .914 5.33 .962 5.60
1946 CIN NL 28 2B 39 34 30 230 92 131 7 27 .970 5.72 .970 5.55
1946 CIN NL 28 3B 36 33 32 114 22 88 4 11 .965 3.06 .952 3.08
1947 CIN NL 29 2B 100 98 84 502 243 247 12 53 .976 4.90 .975 5.57
1947 CIN NL 29 3B 13 4 3 16 5 11 0 0 1.000 1.23 .947 3.06
1948 CIN NL 30 2B 60 49 35 286 143 140 3 32 .990 4.72 .971 5.40
1948 CIN NL 30 3B 3 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 1.000 0.67 .940 3.10
1948 CIN NL 30 SS 2 0 0 5 2 3 0 0 1.000 2.50 .960 5.00
4 Seasons 2B 205 185 153 1053 492 536 25 115 .976 5.01 .972 5.52
3 Seasons 3B 52 37 35 132 28 100 4 11 .970 2.46 .951 3.08
1 Season SS 2 0 0 5 2 3 0 0 1.000 2.50 .960 5.00
4 Seasons TOT 259 222 188 1190 522 639 29 126 .976 4.48 .970 5.02
Note: Fielding stats are a combination of official records and RetroSheet records. Both are likely to have substantial errors and will not match perfectly.
View Complete Notes on Fielding Data
Leagues historically made no effort to balance team, league, and player fielding stats. Since 1990 or so, computers have made this feasible, but prior to that there are hundreds or thousands of discrepancies each year in games played (even whether a player played a position), putouts, assists, double plays and errors.
  • Pre-1948 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
  • From 1948 on SB, CS, Pickoff, & WP data for catchers and pitchers is taken from play-by-play accounts in the retrosheet files. There are several hundred games without pbp from 1948 to 1973 and for those we may not have any data.
  • CG & GS come from the retrosheet data and should be complete and pretty accurate from 1918 on.
  • Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1948 to 1973 and complete from then on.
  • Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1918) is taken from play-by-play or box score data as available.
  • Stats (PO,A,G,etc) for C,P,1B,2B,3B,SS,OF positions is taken from the official reported totals and may have been corrected at various times since their publication.
  • For detailed information on which games retrosheet is missing play-by-play from 1948 to 1973, please see their most wanted games list
  • For detailed information on the availability of data on this site by year, see our data coverage page

Sabermetric Fielding

Year Tm Lg Age Pos Rtot Rtot/yr Rtz Rtzhm Rtzrd Rdp Rof Rctch Rdrs Rdrs/yr Rpm Rdp Rbnt Rof Rhr RerC RsbC RsbP
1941 CIN NL 23 2B
1946 CIN NL 28 2B
1946 CIN NL 28 3B
1947 CIN NL 29 2B
1947 CIN NL 29 3B
1948 CIN NL 30 2B
1948 CIN NL 30 3B
1948 CIN NL 30 SS
4 Seasons 2B
3 Seasons 3B
1 Season SS
4 Seasons TOT

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1941 CIN NL 23 9 4 9 6 0 0 0 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
1946 CIN NL 28 78 68 78 75 0 0 0 37 37 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
1947 CIN NL 29 117 102 117 108 0 0 0 100 13 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 0
1948 CIN NL 30 74 49 74 65 0 0 0 60 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 9 0
4 Seasons 278 223 278 254 0 0 0 203 53 3 0 0 0 0 0 18 6
Appearances table is calculated solely from full RetroSheet play-by-play data available from 1973 on. A combination of RetroSheet (starting with the 1918 season) and non-RetroSheet data is used for other seasons.

Advanced Fielding -- 2B*

Putouts Assists Errors Double Plays
Year Tm Lg Age PA RHB% BIP% GBIP% Fld F2O% FC Tot Cgt Frc Tag Tot 1B 2B Hm Rly Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 643 543 463 43 GB GBs GBr LD LDs LDf
1948 CIN NL 30 608 66% 81% 25% 61 93% 0 56 22 20 14 42 35 5 1 1 2 0 2 0 2 10 4 2 3 0 9 3 6 1 0 1
1 Season 608 66% 81% 25% 61 93% 0 56 22 20 14 42 35 5 1 1 2 0 2 0 2 10 4 2 3 0 9 3 6 1 0 1
MLB Averages 61% 82% 27% 92%

Advanced Fielding -- 3B*

Putouts Assists Errors Double Plays
Year Tm Lg Age PA RHB% BIP% GBIP% Fld F2O% FC Tot Cgt Frc Tag Tot 1B 2B Hm Rly Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 543 53 GB LD LDs LDf bFld bF2O%
1948 CIN NL 30 8 75% 88% 38% 1 100% 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 Season 8 75% 88% 38% 1 100% 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
MLB Averages 61% 82% 27% 89% 68%

* Many Detailed Statistics are based on play-by-play accounts accumulated by RetroSheet. These totals may be incomplete (3.6% of all plays from 1918 to 1973 are missing or have incomplete accounts, click link for year and team summary) for some players prior to 1974 and even complete seasons may not match the official totals due to errors in both the official totals and the play-by-play accounts. Pre-1954 seasons have a substantial numbers of games missing play-by-play accounts and should be viewed as essentially incomplete.

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

Errors Committed as 2B s c a p y
1947 NL  12 (5th)

Fielding % as 2B s c a p y
1947 NL  .976 (4th)

                           

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